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Journal of Experimental Botany, doi:10.1093/jxb/erj070
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Received September 19, 2005
Accepted November 22, 2005

RESEARCH PAPER

The plant energy-dissipating mitochondrial systems: depicting the genomic structure and the expression profiles of the gene families of uncoupling protein and alternative oxidase in monocots and dicots

Jirí Borecky 1 *, Fábio T. S. Nogueira 2 *, Kívia A. P. de Oliveira 1, Ivan G. Maia 3, Aníbal E. Vercesi 4, and Paulo Arruda 2 *

1 Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CP 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Departamento de Patologia Clínica (NMCE), FCM, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
2 Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CP 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Departamento de Genética e Evolução, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
3 Centro de Biologia Molecular e Engenharia Genética, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), CP 6109, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Present address: Instituto de Biociências, Departamento de Genética, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 18618-000, Botucatu, SP, Brazil
4 Departamento de Patologia Clínica (NMCE), FCM, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Paulo Arruda, E-mail: parruda{at}unicamp.br


  Abstract

The simultaneous existence of alternative oxidases and uncoupling proteins in plants has raised the question as to why plants need two energy-dissipating systems with apparently similar physiological functions. A probably complete plant uncoupling protein gene family is described and the expression profiles of this family compared with the multigene family of alternative oxidases in Arabidopsis thaliana and sugarcane (Saccharum sp.) employed as dicot and monocot models, respectively. In total, six uncoupling protein genes, AtPUMP1-6, were recognized within the Arabidopsis genome and five (SsPUMP1-5) in a sugarcane EST database. The recombinant AtPUMP5 protein displayed similar biochemical properties as AtPUMP1. Sugarcane possessed four Arabidopsis AOx1-type orthologues (SsAOx1a-1d); no sugarcane orthologue corresponding to Arabidopsis AOx2-type genes was identified. Phylogenetic and expression analyses suggested that AtAOx1d does not belong to the AOx1-type family but forms a new (AOx3-type) family. Tissue-enriched expression profiling revealed that uncoupling protein genes were expressed more ubiquitously than the alternative oxidase genes. Distinct expression patterns among gene family members were observed between monocots and dicots and during chilling stress. These findings suggest that the members of each energy-dissipating system are subject to different cell or tissue/organ transcriptional regulation. As a result, plants may respond more flexibly to adverse biotic and abiotic conditions, in which oxidative stress is involved.

Keywords: Alternative oxidase; expression profile; oxidative stress; uncoupling proteins.

*These authors contributed equally to this work.


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